The Bang! Bang! Bang!

"Uchiha Kazuto! Get out here!"

Uchiha Shisui rushed to the area below the Hokage's Office, gritting his teeth as he shouted furiously.

"Stop!"

A Military Police Force ninja patrolling below the Hokage's Office held up a baton and blocked Uchiha Shisui's way.

Although they all knew Uchiha Shisui and knew he was a prodigy of the Uchiha Clan, so what? That was all in the past.

"Move! I want to see Uchiha Kazuto!"

Uchiha Shisui looked at the few Military Police Force ninjas. One of them was a member of the Uchiha Clan who had once admired him immensely, but now Shisui couldn't see any admiration for him in the man's eyes.

"Shut up! Who do you think you are now? You think you can just call Lord Hokage by his name? Uchiha Shisui, if you dare call Lord Hokage by his name again, don't blame us for being rough with you!"

They surrounded Uchiha Shisui, gripping the batons in their hands and slowly tapping them against their other palms, looking ready to attack him at any moment.

"You..."

Uchiha Shisui took a step back and drew a deep breath. He couldn't stoop to their level.

"Please report to Lord Hokage that Uchiha Shisui requests an audience!"

"Wait here. We'll go inform Lord Hokage, but whether he'll see you..."

The Military Police Force ninjas exchanged glances. Then the Captain in charge stepped forward and spoke to Uchiha Shisui before entering the Hokage's Office.

The others kept a wary eye on Uchiha Shisui, ready to stop him from doing anything out of line.

This was no longer Hiruzen Sarutobi's era, and Uchiha Kazuto was no longer the head of the Military Police Force he had once been. Yet Uchiha Shisui hadn't accepted reality. In his eyes, Uchiha Kazuto still wasn't the Hokage he believed in.

If Hiruzen Sarutobi were in the Hokage's Office now, Uchiha Shisui would never have dared to barge in like this.

Unfortunately, the situation in Konoha was no longer something Uchiha Shisui could influence—or even understand. The Uchiha Clan wasn't on his side, and neither was the village. Apart from the late Hiruzen Sarutobi, no one stood behind him.

He was the outsider!

Unfortunately, even now, Uchiha Shisui still hadn't caught on. He remained lost in the Konoha of the past.

Inside the Hokage's Office.

Uchiha Kazuto looked out at Hokage Rock.

"That thing's a bit of an eyesore. Tear it down!"

Uchiha Kazuto thought.

Knock, knock, knock!

There was a knock at the door.

"Lord Hokage, Uchiha Shisui wishes to see you!"

The Military Police Force ninja spoke respectfully from outside.

"Uchiha Shisui? Who's that?"

Uchiha Kazuto froze for a moment, then remembered. Oh, right, Uchiha Shisui—the guy who'd given him a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan. If it hadn't been for Shisui's eyes, killing Uchiha Itachi wouldn't have been so easy.

When he killed Hiruzen Sarutobi, Uchiha Kazuto had remembered that Uchiha Shisui was blind, so he'd had someone gouge out Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes and fit them into Shisui's sockets.

But to be honest, he hadn't paid much attention to this guy, who no longer had the Sharingan.

"Let him in!"

Uchiha Kazuto nodded.

Not long after, Uchiha Shisui was brought inside like a prisoner.

"Uchiha Kazuto, do you have any idea what you've done? You actually dared to kill Lord Hokage!!!"

Uchiha Shisui glared at Uchiha Kazuto with a furious, twisted expression, his fists clenched tight.

Bam!

The next moment, a baton struck him on the head.

Bam!

A kick buckled his knee, and he fell to the ground. At the same time, several ninjas behind him rushed forward and pinned him down.

"You beast! Who gave you the nerve to show such disrespect to our great Lord Hokage? Hiruzen Sarutobi was a beast. Good riddance to him! And now you're feeling sorry for him!"

Bam! Bam! Bam!

Six strikes in a second. Pain beyond imagination surged through him, so intense that Uchiha Shisui couldn't even think.

"Ah!"

The next moment, Uchiha Shisui let out a cry of agony. He hadn't expected it to hurt this much. He had never experienced pain like it before. He couldn't understand it. The baton couldn't even break through his defenses, so why did it hurt so much? This made no sense at all!

"Uchiha Shisui, what are you talking about? What have I done to make you disrespect me so much that you won't even call me Lord Hokage?"

Uchiha Kazuto frowned, walked over, and looked down at Uchiha Shisui with a puzzled expression.

"Lord Hokage? Hahaha! What Lord Hokage? I shouldn't have trusted you! You—you used Kotoamatsukami to alter Lord Hokage's will, then usurped his position, didn't you? Uchiha Kazuto, do you have any idea what you're doing? Do you understand what kind of situation you're putting the village and the clan in? You'll drag the clan straight to hell! You're stirring up conflict between the village and the clan!!! You'll regret this!!!"

Uchiha Shisui glared at Uchiha Kazuto through Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes, his face twisted as he roared in fury, as if the dead Hiruzen Sarutobi had been his father.

"Huh? Hahahaha, what are you talking about? The clan? The village? The situation? Hahaha!!!"

After hearing Uchiha Shisui's words, Uchiha Kazuto looked utterly baffled. Then he started laughing, as if he'd just heard the funniest joke in the world. It was the most hilarious thing he'd heard in a long time.

"What are you laughing at, Uchiha Kazuto? You can still turn back! As long as you give up the Hokage position and apologize, there's still time!"

Even now, Uchiha Shisui still hadn't caught on to the situation in Konoha. After all, he'd spent all this time in the clan compound and didn't know much about what was happening in the village. He still thought the village was the same as it had been before.

"What am I laughing at? Uchiha Shisui, I'm the clan head of the Uchiha Clan! I'm also the Hokage of Konoha! Your Hiruzen Sarutobi, that traitor, is already dead! Have you even figured out what's going on? Stir up conflict between the clan and the village? How? As clan head, am I supposed to point a knife at my own clan? Uchiha Shisui, do you have any idea what's going on now?"

Uchiha Kazuto reached out and patted Uchiha Shisui on the head.

"The village isn't what it used to be, Uchiha Shisui! You idiot!"

"How..."

Uchiha Shisui...